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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
12. Bottom line, the big picture! Disgusting!
Fri Oct 24, 2014, 04:20 PM
Oct 2014
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547690-just-the-facts-gun-violence-in-america?lite

So, people get all upset about 3,000 sadly dead at 9/11, but for some, apparently, the below is perfectly OK.

The big picture:

Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence.

Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot. Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports.

Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns -- more than the population of St. Louis, Mo. (318,069), Pittsburgh (307,484), Cincinnati, Ohio (296,223), Newark, N.J. (277,540), and Orlando, Fla. (243,195) (sources: CDF, U.S. Census; CDC)

One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC)

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Mercy shenmue Oct 2014 #1
. tk2kewl Oct 2014 #2
"As a father, this has been my fear since my kids have been in school, that something like this... villager Oct 2014 #3
The US has become a pretty lame country in solving problems, and the solutions by fools is RKP5637 Oct 2014 #5
Nothing is being "built" here, in terms of society. It is fraying. villager Oct 2014 #8
Agree! We're living through the last days of it IMO. Relative to the climate, it's RKP5637 Oct 2014 #10
Exactly, and yet the idiot media is trying to scare everybody about Ebola. nt raccoon Oct 2014 #22
Prayers sent for all ... Peacetrain Oct 2014 #4
America has had 87 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Botany Oct 2014 #6
Bottom line, the big picture! Disgusting! RKP5637 Oct 2014 #12
Gun violence is not a legitimate public health issue? mahannah Oct 2014 #7
Washington state is currently voting ballardgirl Oct 2014 #14
This is sickening ballardgirl Oct 2014 #9
Lamoureux (Marysville Chief) confirms 2 dead LeftOfWest Oct 2014 #11
From Twitter.. yuiyoshida Oct 2014 #13
The shooter was a freshman named Jaylen Fryberg. amandabeech Oct 2014 #15
"I have no idea what his motive was because yesterday at football practice, he was all fine, talking jtuck004 Oct 2014 #21
All in all, a very sad and troubling incident. amandabeech Oct 2014 #23
We killed any kids with drones today, any cops use excessive deadly force, standard excuses? jtuck004 Oct 2014 #16
Lets Do Nothing Again and Again otohara Oct 2014 #17
If Madison Thespian2 Oct 2014 #18
Marysville in my back yard.. Docross Oct 2014 #19
My colleague went to that school, feeling pretty freaked out freeplessinseattle Oct 2014 #20
Locking defacto7 Oct 2014 #24
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